The Hatred of Poetry Condition:Like New Nothing is in my soul

Nothing is in my soul

Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writers of the Victorian period

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015

Only Alex Cross has the skills and the courage to crack the case-but will he discover the truth in time

life is too complicated: You seem to see violence everywhere you turn

The Hatred of Poetry Condition:Like New Nothing is in my soulNo art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."In this inventive and lucid essay,